Multinodular goiters do increase your chance of developing thyroid cancer, but they can be treated with medication, radioactive iodine, or surgery depending on the type, if necessary.

A multinodular goiter is an enlarged thyroid gland with several nodules. It may not cause any symptoms, but a large goiter can cause difficulty breathing or swallowing or be related to ...

Both lobes of the gland were nodular. The gross and microscopical features in 50 sections were consistent with colloid adenomatous goiter. All the tissue was blocked in paraffin and sectioned.

Neck examination revealed a voluminous bilateral multinodular goiter, more developed in the left lobe, without tenderness but with venous local swelling (Fig. 1).

Most cases of a goiter are categorized as “simple” goiters. These do not involve inflammation or any detriment to thyroid function, produce no symptoms, and often have no obvious cause.

Disclosures May 11, 2005 0 Case Presentation A 38-year-old, African-American woman was referred for postsurgical hypothyroidism and recurrent goiter.

Graves disease, toxic adenoma and toxic multinodular goiter differ in their clinical presentation and cardiovascular implications. In this Review, establishing the etiology of hyperthyroidism is ...

Rogers, Asper and Williams, 6 for example, report an incidence of 1.99 per cent of all patients with goiter, but the total figure on which this calculation is based includes 907 toxic diffuse ...